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Happy holidays

To celebrate the holiday season, why not some art? The image is gold nanowires that are being ‘grown’ on silicon. Nanowires are important for a variety of microelectronics. To grow them scientists have to perfect the recipe by trying different combinations of ingredients, temperatures and other things. These nanowires are about the size of a red blood cell, or about 10,000 nanometers. The gold nanowires were grown by Adnan Korkmaz of the Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) at Northeastern University.